kah296 's review for:

You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption by Angela Tucker

5.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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Angela Tucker concisely and emphatically unpacks the problems with the adoption industry and how our society views adoption, particularly when it comes to transracial adoption. Her solutions are intuitive but big and she stops short of taking a position on many of the issues she tackles in this book, which could be frustrating but I appreciate her resolve not to draw up a list of superficial steps adoptive parents and communities can point to for absolution. The language that she crafts for adoptees to describe the feelings that haven’t been afforded language in the mainstream is beautiful and tender. This is definitely a book to which I hope to return.